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- A US company claims to have brought an extinct species of wolf back from extinction. The dire wolf last roamed the American midcontinent 12,500 years ago.
- A baby mammoth nicknamed "Yana" was dissected by Russian scientists at North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk on March 27, pictures show.
- A stunning blue light likely caused by SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fuel illuminated the night skies over Europe on Monday.
- The rare sighting of an octopus riding on top of a shark was shared by scientists with the University of Auckland after it was captured off the coast of New Zealand.
- Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner welcomed the Crew-10 astronauts in a unique way to the International Space Station on March 16, 2025, and it was live streamed.
- Mission controllers were able to confirm that Athena lunar lander made it to the moon, but they do not know the status of the spacecraft.
- A private lunar lander carrying equipment to deliver for NASA touched down on the moon on Sunday, with the company's Mission Control confirming touchdown from Texas.
- A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is likely what gives the planet its reddish hue.
- A new study links a particular gene to the origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in humans may have helped us develop speech.
- Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of what was thought to be an asteroid was soon deleted.
- Photos taken by the India Space Research Organization moon orbiter Chandrayaan 2 recently show aerial images of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12's lunar landing vehicles.
- NASA finalized its strategy for sustaining a human presence in space this week, looking ahead toward the planned de-orbiting of the International Space Station in 2030.
- A complete mastodon jaw found by a New York homeowner will undergo "extensive scientific analysis" before being put on display to the public.
- NASA and Voyager 1 resumed communications and operations after a fault protection system switched the interstellar spacecraft's mode of communication to one using less power.
- Earth is parting company with an asteroid that's been tagging along as a “mini moon" for the past two months. The harmless space rock will peel away on Monday.
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists have discovered Bathydevius caudactylus, a new species of glowing sea slug that lives deep in the ocean.
- NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered the spacecraft's fault protection system.
- The Orionids meteor shower peaks on Monday, but will continue to light up the sky through Nov. 22, as debris from Halley's Comet enters Earth's atmosphere.
- U.S.-based startup company Heliospect Genomics reportedly is offering wealthy couples embryo screening for IQ and other traits at $50,000 for 100 embryos.
- SpaceX pulled off a stunning achievement this week, conducting four launches in less than 48 hours with huge implications for the future of space exploration.
